Cloudflare Co-founder Michelle Zatlyn shares 6 key leadership lessons

Fundraising is never easy, particularly for first-time founders; pitching to investors and analysing term sheets can be a nightmare. That’s what Michelle Zatlyn, Co-founder and COO of Cloudflare, reiterated in a…

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[Funding alert] Cloud kitchen startup Bigspoon raises Rs 15 Cr in pre-Series A round

BigSpoon, the Ahmedabad-based cloud kitchen startup, has raised Rs 15 crore in a pre-Series A round from NB VC (Dubai), CreedCap Asia, Zed Capital, and angel investors including Sanjiv Bajaj,…

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Ex-Googler Caesar Sengupta launches fintech startup with former colleagues

Caesar Sengupta, who stepped down from Google in March after 15 years, has launched his fintech startup within four months of exiting the search giant. The new venture, Arbo Works,…

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E-wedding planning sees an upswing as customers embrace going digital

The wedding landscape in India has changed drastically over the past few years, with the emergence of a slew of online aggregators and wedding planning platforms. Since the pandemic, Indian…

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Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy meets FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Flipkart chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy on Thursday met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.The Finance Minister's office tweeted a picture from Sitharaman's meeting with Krishnamurthy.While details of the meeting were not shared,…

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Armed with grit, these non-profit entrepreneurs are changing lives one idea at a time

During a cross-country motorcycle expedition in 2018, Hyderabad-resident Jai Bharathi Addepalli saw a couple of middle-aged women crossing the Myanmar-Thailand border on scooters. They turned out to be bike taxi…

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Govt will support establishing semiconductor industry in India: Goyal

The government is committed to supporting establishing the semiconductor industry in the country which will also help in reducing foreign exchange outflows, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.The Commerce…

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Startup news and updates: daily roundup (Aug 20, 2021)

Facebook launches virtual reality work app, takes a step towards 'metaverse'Facebook is trying to pull in workplace users with a new virtual reality app called Horizon Workrooms. Workrooms lets people meet remotely…

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[Funding alert] Digital mortgage platform, LoanKuber raises $1.25M as part of its ongoing Pre-Series A round

LoanKuber, a digital mortgage platform for micro-SMEs, on Friday announced that it has raised $1.25 million as part of its ongoing Pre-Series A round. The current round saw participation from…

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